Latest Writing

2021

• Notes on an Open Scraping Database
  29 March 2021
• Reimagining the Research Lab
  24 February 2021
• The Coming Era of Tokenized Essays
  26 January 2021
• The Consultant Out of Time strategy
  26 January 2021
• Why can't I write code inside my browser?
  14 January 2021

2020

• Filtered for... margin notes
  17 December 2020
• Weak Ties & Strong Intros strategy
  10 December 2020
• A Letter to Arnold
  30 November 2020
• 6 Years on the Road
  10 November 2020
• The Economic Power of Real-time Chat Spaces
  22 September 2020
• Podcasts with Offline Rocks & Hundreds of Ways
  18 September 2020
• Further thoughts about GoodReads & the web books ecosystem
  14 September 2020
• Filtered for... inquiry vs insight
  19 August 2020
• The Contrary Consultant strategy
  18 August 2020
• What makes a good "hire me" page?
  11 August 2020
• Generating an alumni network for indies
  6 August 2020
• re: More experiments with video calls, and what slides are for
  1 August 2020
• Updates to Quotebacks
  24 July 2020
• Some notes on Thinking in Public
  23 July 2020
• The Indie Consulting Business Model Canvas V0.1
  23 July 2020
• Opening up in Open Spaces
  16 July 2020
• Setting up a Discord Room for my Blog
  8 July 2020
• Quotebacks for Firefox is here!
  2 July 2020
• Can Calendly Unbundle NYC?
  26 June 2020
• Navigating Power & Status strategy
  24 June 2020
• Exploring ScrollToTextFragment
  10 June 2020
• disaster!
  10 June 2020
• Introducing: Quotebacks
  9 June 2020
• Sparring & Tenure for Indie Consultants
  28 May 2020
• Filtered for... writing inside organizations
  27 May 2020
• Filtered for... the design of virtual spaces
  22 May 2020
• Filtered for... Play
  20 May 2020
• A Good Looking Tiddly Theme for Digital Gardens
  19 May 2020
• The Challenges of Remote Consulting
  6 May 2020
• Collective Narratives & Sensemaking in Uncertainty
  30 April 2020
• TiddlyBlink on Glitch
  20 April 2020
• Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads
  15 April 2020
• After Peacetime
  13 April 2020
• The Quarantined Independent
  8 April 2020
• Tap tap test
  31 March 2020
• Of Blogs and Beacons
  23 March 2020
• My Bandcamp Blogging Bandwagon Reccs
  20 March 2020
• Announcing- The Bandcamp Blogging Bandwagon
  19 March 2020
• New Blogging 3 - Blog Patterns
  16 March 2020
• Narrative Strategy
  20 February 2020
• Building an ebook version of Journey to the End of the Night for Erin
  27 January 2020

2019

• Blocking & Unblocking Clients strategy
  6 December 2019
• Optimism as an Operating System strategy
  19 November 2019
• Yes! And... strategy
  18 November 2019
• Fellow travellers on the road
  14 November 2019
• Webmention believers...
  5 November 2019
• Testing Webmentions
  1 November 2019
• A blog tour
  1 November 2019
• New Blogging 2 - Open Blogchains
  31 October 2019
• 5 years on the road
  24 October 2019
• Understanding Marketing Realities
  22 October 2019
• Occult Ads
  21 October 2019
• Consulting Success Podcast
  30 September 2019
• Sweathead Podcast Appearance
  26 September 2019
• Workshops as Portals strategy
  23 September 2019
• Networked Communities 3 - Sidewalk Spaces and Positive Gatekeeping
  10 September 2019
• Networked Communities 2 - Blogging as a Social Act
  4 September 2019
• Networked Communities 1 - Weaving a public web, or, why don’t I blog more?
  1 September 2019
• Space for Creativity
  30 July 2019
• S, M, L 1 - Wither Substack
  18 July 2019
• New Blogging 1 - Building Blogchains
  17 July 2019
• Help me write my book by annotating the outline
  12 July 2019
• The One Page Strategy Canvas
  28 June 2019
• How (and why) to roll your own frameworks in consulting engagements strategy
  27 June 2019
• Planting new varietals in my digital garden
  19 June 2019
• Using Bookmarklets to Script Static Sites
  19 June 2019
• Blood In the Feed
  6 June 2019
• Integrating Annotations into a Static Blog
  23 May 2019
• Blogpunk
  17 May 2019
• Ditching Hourly Podcast Appearance
  26 April 2019
• The Strategic Independent strategy
  4 April 2019
• Magical Mystery Mix
  20 March 2019
• Strange Attraction strategy
  12 March 2019
• I, consultant? strategy
  27 February 2019
• Building a digital garden
  17 February 2019
• Exploring the UX of web-annotations
  12 February 2019
• Weird Work
  22 January 2019

2018

• Ways of Seeing strategy
  29 October 2018
• Four Years on the Road
  24 October 2018
• Who do I know in the kids book publishing world?
  16 October 2018
• Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens
  10 October 2018
• Narrative spaces maps-as-media
  24 September 2018
• For the love of maps maps-as-media
  19 September 2018
• The power of labels strategy
  17 September 2018
• For the record blogging
  13 September 2018
• How to make AMP stories using Jekyll and Github Pages
  6 September 2018
• The Practice of Media Design
  25 July 2018
• Re-booting the Malcontents Podcast and Looking for Feedback
  14 July 2018
• High Fidelity Consulting strategy
  10 July 2018
• Community Economics & A Kitty-Turtle Hybrid
  9 July 2018
• Strategy and stewardship strategy
  28 June 2018
• PDF Aesthetics
  8 June 2018
• Thank you Seth
  6 June 2018
• How to get things done strategy
  1 June 2018
• Some good links
  20 May 2018
• Atemporality of the Corporation strategy
  17 April 2018
• Strategy is the organic flow of ideas and people strategy
  8 March 2018
• Talking getting things done with Ross Hudgens & Corey Eulas
  7 March 2018
• Talking consulting on the Boundless podcast
  26 February 2018
• Small b blogging
  23 February 2018
• The Malcontents Episode 4 & 5
  9 February 2018
• In the land of hierarchy, the networked individual is king strategy
  2 February 2018
• Who gives a shit about your content?
  30 January 2018
• Experiments in Networked Writing
  5 January 2018

2017

• Talking about careers
  14 December 2017
• Decentralized Revenue
  13 December 2017
• The Malcontents Episode 3
  8 December 2017
• A few notes on blogging & independent feeds
  27 November 2017
• The Malcontents Episode 2
  27 November 2017
• The Malcontents
  16 November 2017
• Intimate Marketing
  14 November 2017
• Privacy Glitch
  7 November 2017
• Three years on the road strategy
  24 October 2017
• Algorithmic text is exciting
  20 October 2017
• How do you measure good content?
  3 October 2017
• 00FF00
  22 September 2017
• The Consultant's Grain strategy
  18 July 2017
• Branding in the age of Content
  27 June 2017
• The Beginner's Guide to Community Building
  5 June 2017
• Context Collapse, Brands & Content
  20 April 2017
• The State of Content
  24 February 2017
• Some Interesting Media Strategy Jobs
  14 February 2017
• The Importance of Launching
  26 January 2017

2016

• Some Interesting Agencies
  16 December 2016
• A fieldguide for independent strategy consultants strategy
  14 December 2016
• Every Blog Takes a Village
  1 December 2016
• Informal breakfast 2
  30 November 2016
• On Conferences
  22 November 2016
• Starting an informal breakfast thing
  1 November 2016
• Two years on the road strategy
  24 October 2016
• Indie Blogging & Distribution
  21 October 2016
• Where will the next Twitter come from?
  20 October 2016
• Death of the Industrial Advertising Complex
  9 September 2016
• A Day In the Consultant's Life strategy
  29 August 2016
• Intentional Communities
  25 August 2016
• Blogging, Not Blogging
  9 August 2016
• Why I've decided not to launch a brand for my consulting work strategy
  1 August 2016
• An alternative to the bullshit industrial complex
  3 June 2016
• Using Facebook Messenger as a Free Intercom Replacement
  10 May 2016
• Intermodal Media
  21 January 2016
• What does it mean to build a marketing team for your startup?
  7 January 2016

2015

• In The Future We Will All Fall Madly in Love With Our Toasters
  13 September 2015
• You're Not Blogging, My Friend.
  3 September 2015
• A Meander Into Architecture
  24 August 2015
• Google Photos for Work
  5 June 2015
• Poetry & Markdown for What?
  11 May 2015
• Mediated Maps & Digital Blind Spots
  5 May 2015
• How to use Google Slides as a free cloud-hosted illustrator replacement
  20 April 2015
• Decentralized Brands & The Future of Content Marketing
  15 April 2015
• Links April 9th
  9 April 2015
• Links March 24th
  24 March 2015
• Blog For The Young Things
  23 March 2015
• Back to Blogging
  22 March 2015
• Links Jan 26th
  26 January 2015

2014

• Random Acts of Algorithms
  3 December 2014
• Predicting A Global Economic Crash in 2025
  1 December 2014
• Let Me Know How I Can Help
  1 April 2014
• My Investment Thesis
  1 February 2014

2013

• Creativity vs Innovation
  22 March 2013

2012

• The 500 Year Old Meteor Doodle
  15 November 2012
• The Art of Being Switched On
  12 April 2012